A Dream Is What You Wake Up FromOriginally released in 1978, A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society. The everyday lives of three Black families with different approaches to their struggle for survival in the United States are represented through a mix of fiction and documentary scenes, a docudrama style inspired by the work of Cuban filmmaker Sara Gmez. Filmmakers Larry Bullard and Carolyn Y. Johnson relied on a mix of documentary